Amazon S3 vs Google Cloud Datastore | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 9 out of 10

Based on 286 reviews and ratings

Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 30 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

NoSQL Databases

Amazon S3

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

9.6

Google Cloud Datastore

96%

Google Cloud Datastore ranks higher in 7/7 features

Google Cloud Datastore ranks higher in 7/7 features

Performance

N/A

0 Ratings

10.0

100%

3 Ratings

Availability

N/A

0 Ratings

10.0

100%

3 Ratings

Concurrency

N/A

0 Ratings

10.0

100%

3 Ratings

Security

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

90%

3 Ratings

Scalability

N/A

0 Ratings

10.0

100%

3 Ratings

Data model flexibility

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

90%

3 Ratings

Deployment model flexibility

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

90%

3 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

Google Cloud Datastore is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Support Rating

Likelihood to Recommend

9.2

Amazon S3

92%

66 Ratings

10.0

Google Cloud Datastore

100%

3 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

Amazon S3

N/A

0 Ratings

10.0

Google Cloud Datastore

100%

2 Ratings

Usability

7.7

Amazon S3

77%

10 Ratings

10.0

Google Cloud Datastore

100%

1 Rating

Support Rating

9.7

Amazon S3

97%

38 Ratings

10.0

Google Cloud Datastore

100%

1 Rating

Pros

Fantastic developer API, including AWS command line and library utilities.
Strong integration with the AWS ecosystem, especially with regards to access permissions.
It's astoundingly stable- you can trust it'll stay online and available for anywhere in the world.
Its static website hosting feature is a hidden gem-- it provides perhaps the cheapest, most stable, most high-performing static web hosting available in PaaS.

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Employee in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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It is hosted in GCP, our primary cloud provider.
It integrates with all the services we use in GCP.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Web console can be very confusing and challenging to use, especially for new users
Bucket policies are very flexible, but the composability of the security rules can be very confusing to get right, often leading to security rules in use on buckets other than what you believe they are

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Head of Engineering

Jock MKTComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Part of the Google Cloud Platform walled garden.
Pay for read/writes to the datastore, in addition to storage.
Not many libraries exist.

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

—

Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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Google Cloud Datastore 10.0

Based on 2 answers

I give Google Cloud a full score because it satisfies our needs so well. We host most of our infrastructure on Google Cloud and using Google Cloud Datastore helps us to solve our NoSQL storage problem. and Google Cloud Datastore is so scalable and elastic. It saves us lots of time to maintain and saves us money.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Amazon S3 7.7

Based on 10 answers

It is tricky to get it all set up correctly with policies and getting the IAM settings right. There is also a lot of lifecycle config you can do in terms of moving data to cold/glacier storage. It is also not to be confused with being a OneDrive or SharePoint replacement, they each have their own place in our environment, and S3 is used more by the IT team and accessed by our PHP applications. It is not necessarily used by an average everyday user for storing their pictures or documents, etc.

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IT Systems & Telephony Administrator

Ignite Travel GroupAirlines/Aviation, 201-500 employees

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Google Cloud Datastore 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Google Cloud Datastore really provides good services and features, it provides Firestore Native mode and Firestore Datastore mode, based on your requirements, like Mobile and web apps or server architectures respectively. - It provides high availability - Dynamic scalability - Provides VPC controls - You can also execute SQL query on Google Cloud Datastore platform - You can easily remove entities permanently from your database, no need to manage garbage collectors.

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Senior Software Engineer

Impero IT Services Pvt. Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Amazon S3 9.7

Based on 38 answers

AWS has always been quick to resolve any support ticket raised. S3 is no exception. We have only ever used it once to get a clarification regarding the costs involved when data is transferred between S3 and other AWS services or the public internet. We got a response from AWS support team within a day.

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Engineer in Engineering

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 201-500 employees

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Google Cloud Datastore 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Google Cloud Datastore provides support in different subjects, like plans and pricing, community support, and documentation especially. It provides basic support for free, in case you want premium support. It provides one-to-one accessibility. In free trial support, you can connect chat with the support team to get resolve your queries and problem you are facing when you are new to work.

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Senior Software Engineer

Impero IT Services Pvt. Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Overall, we found that Amazon S3 provided a lot of backend features Google Cloud Storage (GCS) simply couldn't compare to. GCS was way more expensive and really did not live up to it. In terms of setup, Google Cloud Storage may have Amazon S3 beat, however, as it is more of a pseudo advanced version of Google Drive, that was not a hard feat for it to achieve. Overall, evaluating GCS, in comparison to S3, was an utter disappointment.

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Employee in Marketing

Retail Company, 11-50 employees

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If deploying an application in Google Cloud Platform, using Google Cloud Datastore is a no brainer because of the simplicity of setup. Other options would require more setup and configuration, and do not come with the same level of guaranteed uptime as Google Cloud Datastore. In our case, we've been using Google Cloud Datastore for 4 years without any issues and have never had to think about it.

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Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

It practically eliminated some real heavy storage servers from our premises and reduced maintenance cost.
The excellent durability and reliability make sure the return of money you invested in.
If the objects which are not active or stale, one needs to remove them. Those objects keep adding cost to each billing cycle. If you are handling a really big infrastructure, sometimes this creates quite a huge bill for preserving un-necessary objects/documents.

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Senior Solutions Architect

InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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It solves our NoSQL database problem.
It it highly scalable and available to meets our needs.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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